Before:
Kevin was born on the mossy hills of Scotland and lived for a while in West Lothian before the mores of pre-Thatcher and REALLY pre-Oasis Great Britain sent his family across the ocean to North America. They moved here and there and Kevin did the same when he was old enough. Now he lives in London with his family and a Dog.
Kevin Wardrop is an amateur writer, amateur photographer and professional pain in the ass. He has worked in the PC support business for most of his adult life and has been accustomed to simply answering technical questions as a matter of fiat, it was his career choice after all. Now he herds cats and puppies for a living as well as babysitting the web enterprises at the heart of western industry.
It’s Time to Tie Executive Pay to Worker Pay
Take a moment to reflect upon just how much contempt the Çaterpillar corporation has for the union that represents its workers: as Steven Greenhouse reports, the company—in the midst of our nation’s worst economic crisis since the Great Depression—is demanding wage and benefit concessions from its unionized work force while profits are booming and executives are receiving pay increases:
Kicking Labor While You’re Up | MetaFilter
Caterpillar, after record profits, squeezes its union for a six-year wage and pension freeze and increased insurance contributions – not because it has to, but because it can. As the machinists’ union enters its fourth month on strike, the company says it’s getting along just fine with temps and union workers who have crossed the picket line. Private-sector union membership is now at an all-time low of 6.9%. Even as calls to remedy America’s income inequality grow from Occupy and other movements, nobody in power is helping. The Democratic Party’s ship has long since sailed.
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The Conservatives have also taken steps to ensure gang-related killings result automatically in a first-degree murder, while also singling out drive-by shootings and bolstering the fight against cross-border gun smuggling.
“We believe that our firearms legislation and the mandatory minimum prison sentences are having the desired impact,” Toews said.
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson also defended the government’s record on trying to rid the streets of smuggled handguns.
“We have taken steps to ensure that the border is open to legitimate business but closed to criminals and gun smugglers,” Nicholson said in an interview with The Canadian Press. “And there’s better security at our borders today than there ever has been.
In the future Hudak dreams for Ontarians, workers will shuffle from one low-wage, precarious job to another, competing with each other in a race to the bottom. This is what he means by “flexibility” and it is the path to poverty, not prosperity.
